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Recent News
2/24/26
Prof. Sul has published a new article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Title of the article: “How helping others helps us: neural mechanisms linking prosocial behavior to psychological and physical wellbeing"
2/20/26
Congratulation to Sunghwan Park for receiving master’s degree from the department of psychology, Pusan National University.
Also, congratulations to Donggun Lee and Hyewon Lee for their bachelor’s degree as well!
Our lab actively participated in the 2025 Winter Conference of the Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association (KSPPA), held at Hanwha Resort in Haeundae, Busan, Korea (November 28–29, 2025).
Our lab members
Sunghwan presented his research titled “Neurobehavioral predictors of political judgments and choices during South Korea’s political crisis” in the Future Social and Personality Psychologist of the Year Competition. He proudly won the Top Award (최우수상) in the competition — congratulations to Sunghwan!
Sunghwan (right)
Woojin and Taein also presented their excellent studies in the poster session:
Woojin — “The Objectivity Illusion During the Political Upheaval in South Korea: Comparing the Roles of Attitude Strength and Partisanship”
Taein — “Characteristics of the Valence–Arousal Relationship in Extraordinary Altruists’ Perception of Facial Expressions”
Woojin
Taein
Professor Sunhae Sul served as Chair of the Academic Committee at KSPPA for the past two years, making remarkable contributions to the planning and management of the conference. At the closing ceremony, she was honored with a Certificate of Appreciation for her dedicated service.
We are deeply grateful and truly proud of her!
Prof. Sunhae Sul (right)
Our lab RAs, Hyeonjin and Minyeong, presented their research posters at the undergraduate academic conference hosted by the Department of Psychology at Pusan National University (November 28, 2025).
Both of them received awards for their excellent work — Hyeonjin won the Top Award (대상), and Minyeong received the Excellence Award (우수상). We are very proud of their achievements and congratulate them!
Poster titles
Hyeonjin: “The moderating effect of social isolation on the relationship between duration of NEET experience and depression in young adults.”
Minyeong: “The impact of near-miss effects in probability-based game rewards on impulsive decision-making.”
Prof. Sul and Won-Gyo(A postdoctoral alumnus of our lab) published a new paper in Communications Psychology !!
"Happier individuals generate more spontaneous thoughts about friends and value relationships over money"